Muhammad Shahid Alam |
What need be said of a professor at a large American university who declares that to be called an anti-Semite is “a sign of distinction” for an academic or an activist? That he is crudely and arrogantly heedless in his biased declamations? That the American academy manifests a profound sickness in dealing with Jewish, Muslim, Israeli, and Arab issues?
Muhammad Shahid Alam, a tenured economics professor at Northeastern University in Boston, has professedopenly his belief that accusations of Jew-baiting are evidence that he is “working for the right side, for the just cause.” Alam has followed a path that combines teaching in his recognized field from a leftist posture, which is unsurprising, with an exaggerated sense of grievance against the United States and Israel, and outsized intellectual pretensions.
